SALMON CREEK CATTERY- oriental shorthair cat breeders in New York
SALMON CREEK CATTERY- oriental shorthair cat breeders in New York
Our kittens live with us about 30 minutes east of Rochester, New York. Our cats live inside of our country homestead with our two school ages children that love to help in the socialization process! The cats are hardly aware of the outside friends they have in goat, chicken, duck, and rabbit form, we're not just oriental cat breeders, we have a whole farm to support them!
At Salmon Creek, Amanda started breeding and showing New Zealand and Rex rabbits at the age of 7! The plan was to just get a handful of rabbits as pets from a meat breeder, but it grew from there. Or so her parents thought.
One day "a bunny found a flaw with hutch ver 1.0, he took advantage of this breach in security to visit the nice lady bunny near by". This was absolutely planned out and researched without her parents knowledge. Once the litter was born, she was amazed at the diversity of colors and appearance. This is all it took, and her kid self was off to the library again to read up more on genetics with whatever she could find. She even learned how to use tools to build them new enclosures. On a rare chance she found herself inside, she always had Discovery Channel or Animal Planet on in the background. Soon her whole young life revolved around animals, genetics, and biology. She was a constant source for pets bought for her peers that they no longer wanted to care for. Lizards, mice, rats, hamsters, frogs, ferrets, dogs, chickens, ducks, she took them all in as a kid under one condition. She had to pay and fulfill for their needs herself, help would not be on the way if needed. Even while deployed to the middle east, she still risked her military career to take care of and eventually rescue (with the generous help of ISPCA) several dogs back to the United States.
Unfortunately life got demanding, the work life balance shifted to just work, and she stopped the rabbit breeding program. She did still continue to research the subject matter passively over the years.
Amanda grew up with the dreams of being a Conservation Officer. She took college level criminal justice classes while still in high school. She joined the Army to get a "preference bump" on getting into this highly competitive field. Today she is in the Army Reserves as a Drill Sergeant, as well as a union HVAC (heating and air conditioning) service technician for commercial properties (she didn't continue on the conservation officer path).
These careers were going great, but she missed the animals and studying them to pick the healthiest, best examples to continue the breeds legacy. Not just whatever you have handy. So these cats popped into her life shortly after so away she went!
Before raising and breeding these cats, Amanda honestly did not really consider herself a "cat person", just an all around animal lover. She has rescued and owned them through the years, but never really bonded with them. The ones she had were always extremely independent, and she preferred pets that she got to interact with more.
However Amandas experience with Oriental Shorthairs completely changed her mind on cats. She says "I'm so fortunate I stumbled on this breed right when I was considering getting back into breeding. I'm obsessed with these cats, their unique personalities and giant ears stole my heart! The only reason I can convince myself to get rid of them, is so I can spread the joy to more loving families."
Kittens are tested for both prior to leaving our home.
Parents are tested for
And they receive the following regularly
We do not support regular vaccinations, but encourage Titer testing instead to vaccinate as needed.
Each litter gets tested for
Plus one kitten of the litter will receive a full DNA test.
We only want the best for our cats, and I guess our kids too. So we continue to improve our feeding and care plans. Here are a few things we have begun or plan to add in the near future.
We have started raising meat ducks, we began with Cayugas. Even their food is all locally sourced organic and GMO free. Duck meat is a high-protein food that will meet many of your cat's nutritional needs. Duck is also a good source of zinc, iron, and B vitamins.
Plus Cayugas are pretty decent egg layers, providing 100-150 eggs a year from each laying hen. Sometimes we like to give our cats an egg for an extra boost of protein. Maybe there will even be some meat and eggs left for us haha.
We also started adding goats. Dairy goats for now, but soon to be meat goats as well. Goat milk is highly nutritious and can help nursing queens with milk production. The goats will also allow us to make our own soap and other dairy products.
We added some layers this fall with one lucky rooster to keep them company.
Our son has decided he would like to breed rabbits so we started him with a Silver Fox breeding program!
We don't have one now, but I think we are going to get one and train it up. We already ensure that we socialize our kittens with different size well behaved dogs owned by family and friends. This helps them feel more comfortable meeting a dog at their new home. But we will probably be moving that to in-house over the next year or so.
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We hope to be producing all of the cats food on site in the next five years. Then all of their foods food produced on site after that. Hopefully one day we can even do the same thing for ourselves.
Silver Born has been in the household pet breeding science for over 30 years! Like us, Oriental Shorthairs weren't their first breeding adventure, but it has become their favorite. They have also bred Rottweilers and Pekingese in the past. Over the last 3 years oriental shorthair and siamese have become their focus and passion. Striving to raise loving kittens that are not just beautiful, but healthy as well.
They are close by based in Rochester, NY. Pam with Silver Born is also passionate about rescuing animals and she currently has some rescues herself. She even took her animal passion a step further than most. She has been working full time at an animal shelter on top of it.
We are located on our country farm nessled between Bear Creek and Salmon Creek in Ontario, New York. Ontario is located in Upstate New York along the Great Lake of Ontario. It is approximately 30 minutes East of Rochester, 60 minutes West of Syracuse, and 90 minutes East of Buffalo. We are also growing our own organic and natural herbs, tinctures, and food.
Email: Meow@salmoncreekorientals.com
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